- Elizabeth Larson
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Lakeport City Council adopts latest version of state building code
During the half-hour virtual meeting, Assistant City Manager Kevin Ingram presented to the council an ordinance adopting the 2019 California Building Code, along with additional revisions, to the Lakeport Municipal Code. The new ordinance also removes obsolete building codes.
The staff report for the item can be found in the agenda packet published below, beginning on page 45.
The proposed ordinance was introduced at the council’s March 17 meeting.
Ingram said Tuesday that the California Building Standards Commission updates the state building codes every three years.
The 2019 codes were published on July 1 and became applicable to all building permit applications on or after Jan. 1, he said.
The California Building Standards Code consists of administrative, building, residential, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, energy, historical building, fire, existing building, green building and reference standards codes, according to Ingram’s written report.
Ingram said local jurisdictions can adopt more stringent standards as well as appendices. He said the city was not recommending any more stringent standards, although it did want to add several appendices that deal with grading, patio covers, and existing buildings and structures, which are some of the most common building code items.
The updated ordinance also removed references to older building codes going back as far as 1997 and 2001. While they were still referenced, Ingram said the city hadn’t been using those older codes.
He said staff has set it up so that in three years when the next updated building code is ready, only minor changes would be needed to adopt it into the municipal code.
There was no public comment and the council approved the ordinance 5-0.
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040720 Lakeport City Council Agenda Packet by LakeCoNews on Scribd